Painter Geoffrey Raymond on His Annotated Wall Street Portraits
“The most I’ve ever sold one for was $102,000”
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Sept. 15, 2008: Raymond sets up his Richard Fuld portrait outside Lehman headquarters
How’d you come to paint financial figures?
A friend said, “You should start painting people that have enough money to buy the paintings.” The first one I did was [former New York Stock Exchange Chairman and Chief Executive Officer] Richard Grasso, and I put it on EBay for $3,000. The Wall Street Journal wrote a piece about it, so did the New York Times, and it sold for $3,025.